Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-13 Thread syd adams
Thanks .I've redone most of the b1900d flight deck and have a question about the knob animation.Can the object rotation be skipped in some cases? Im still looking through the code for answers and probably didn't see it.Keep up the good work . Syd On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:42 AM, James Turner wro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Apr 2013, at 13:49, James Turner wrote: > I'll figure out a proper fix now. The easy fix is /not/ to group multiple > object-names together, but it's at the expense of more intermediate notes in > the scene, alas. I've pushed a fix now - it's correct but slightly suboptimal in some case

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Apr 2013, at 01:25, syd adams wrote: > If this is any help , it appears that one of the objects disappears if there > are multiple objects in the pick animation. > Will continue testing . I've figured it out; the A4-F is using an idiom like this: A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread syd adams
If this is any help , it appears that one of the objects disappears if there are multiple objects in the pick animation. Will continue testing . Syd On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:17 PM, James Turner wrote: > > > On 12 Apr 2013, at 20:11, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:01 PM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread James Turner
On 12 Apr 2013, at 20:11, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:01 PM, James Turner wrote: >> On 12 Apr 2013, at 16:56, James Turner wrote: >>> No, handling should be the same as before, but I didn't test the >>> b1900d - will take a look and ensure I haven't done anything silly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:01 PM, James Turner wrote: > On 12 Apr 2013, at 16:56, James Turner wrote: >> No, handling should be the same as before, but I didn't test the >> b1900d - will take a look and ensure I haven't done anything silly. >> >> The change I have made (which did need some re-wor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread James Turner
On 12 Apr 2013, at 16:56, James Turner wrote: > No, handling should be the same as before, but I didn't test the > b1900d - will take a look and ensure I haven't done anything silly. > > The change I have made (which did need some re-work, and may have caused the > bug you're seeing) is *vis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread James Turner
On 12 Apr 2013, at 16:18, syd adams wrote: > too tired to do proper testing right now but I'll try again later .Just > noticed that a lot of switches have vanished in the b1900d and the terminal > reports that the objects cant be found for animation , but that could be me > not doing this wro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread syd adams
too tired to do proper testing right now but I'll try again later .Just noticed that a lot of switches have vanished in the b1900d and the terminal reports that the objects cant be found for animation , but that could be me not doing this wrong.Do pick animations need true now ? After a good sleep

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread James Turner
On 12 Apr 2013, at 15:33, syd adams wrote: > I've apparently missed something... I cant right-drag , how do i enable that > ? Knob actions work fine so I'm adding this feature > to the b1900d since I'm overhauling it anyway.I also get the same nasal error > that Stuart mentioned. > Oh , and to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread syd adams
I've apparently missed something... I cant right-drag , how do i enable that ? Knob actions work fine so I'm adding this feature to the b1900d since I'm overhauling it anyway.I also get the same nasal error that Stuart mentioned. Oh , and tooltips don't appear for me .Ive got a few days off now , s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread James Turner
On 11 Apr 2013, at 23:57, Saikrishna Arcot wrote: > I haven't tried the latest Git, but just in my opinion, if using > Flightgear on a laptop, holding-down right-click to pan around can be > bit of a pain. I would personally rather have the click-move-click > method. There's three answers to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-12 Thread James Turner
On 11 Apr 2013, at 22:29, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Hi James, > > This is superb work. I've just taken a flight in the c172p to try out > the new features, and I'm very impressed. Thank you! > > Though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool mouse-looker who continually switched > between cursor and mouse-loo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-11 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
I haven't tried the latest Git, but just in my opinion, if using Flightgear on a laptop, holding-down right-click to pan around can be bit of a pain. I would personally rather have the click-move-click method. Then again, not that many people probably use Flightgear on a laptop, and I haven't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-11 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi James, This is superb work. I've just taken a flight in the c172p to try out the new features, and I'm very impressed. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:48 AM, James Turner wrote: > - made a 'right-drag to look' mouse mode, which I think should be on > by default (with the current behaviour

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-11 Thread James Turner
On 11 Apr 2013, at 10:35, syd adams wrote: > Sounds like a definite improvement! I'll try it out when i get off work.oh > ,and im a mouse flyer,i dont find a joystick appropriate for the type of > aircraft i like to fly.one day i'll invest in a yoke,pedals and maybe even a > throttle setup.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved usability

2013-04-11 Thread syd adams
Sounds like a definite improvement! I'll try it out when i get off work.oh ,and im a mouse flyer,i dont find a joystick appropriate for the type of aircraft i like to fly.one day i'll invest in a yoke,pedals and maybe even a throttle setup. On Apr 11, 2013 2:49 AM, "James Turner" wrote: > > Hi, >